The Conservative Review, an online journal, mocked “the same fretting screeds that have accompanied nearly every move and measure conducted by this administration, regardless of severity.” With each one, the website said, the president’s opponents were “whipping themselves up into full Constitutional Crisis mode.”
On Facebook, Republicans shared the 1993 C-Span footage of Bill Clinton’s announcement that he had fired William S. Sessions, the only other F.B.I. director to be dismissed, while the bureau was investigating why employees in the White House Travel Office had been involved in an episode that became known as Travelgate. (The conditions of Mr. Sessions’s firing were much different, however, as he had abused his federally funded travel privileges.)
Even conservatives who have repeatedly criticized Mr. Trump leapt to his defense. Erick Erickson, the writer and radio host who has called for an independent investigation into Russian ties to the Trump campaign, also called the cries of constitutional crisis “hysterics.”
“The left will never believe President Trump nor believe anything other than the worst possible conspiracies about him,” he wrote.
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